Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-15

excellng anything delivered TO a Yam
kee audience since the war, it contains
some points which do not meet the APP
proval OF Southern men.
The reference to the Cavalier and the
Puritan evades ara suppresses the
truth. The Puritaus who on board OF
the Mayhower landed on Plymouth
Rock were banished from Holland and
placed on board of The MayAower, a
Dutch Vessel, and the Captain had or
ders to put the emigrants (2) ashore on
English territory, and not on any lands
owned by the Dutch. This explains
whey they landed on Plymouth Rock
instead of going to Manhattan, New
York, which then belonged to the
Dutch. Hence,
"True patriots they. be 1t understood
They left their Country for their C0untry's
good"
Mr. Grady is unfortunate in his dec
laration lhat "both Puritan and Caval-
Ter we're lost in the storm Of their revo-
luton
The Yankee Puritan never assimi-
lates, and specially not with the Caval-
Ter. Neither Is there any sympathy be-
tween the icy seli-righteousness OF the
Puritan and the warmth and glow Of
the Irish heart.
His over-wrought enlogY on Lincoln
is wholly work OF Mr.. Grady's magi-
nation. If Lincoln was type of any
thing on earth he was what John Ran
dolph described as "a combination OF
the Puritan and backlog" The coarse
vulgarism of Northwestern infdelity
mixed with grim mockery of New
b England puritanism made up the sum
total OF all that any one can claim as
, moral or intellectual in Lincoln. An
! ex-judge of Kentucky who knew Lin
: coin intimately described him in re-
t cent newspaper ,as an hibitual crank and
4 prevaricator, and to this habit OF false
S hood alone can his death be attributed.
The promise made by Lincoln not to
send supplies to Fort Sumter, and his
It violation OF that promise in sending YES
g sells there with supplies is part of the
,, history OF those days. His solemn dec
e laration that he had no right and nc
/ intention to NEEDLE with slavery in the
}, States was contradicted by all his acts
IS after he was placed in power. He de.
e ceived the people and the Senators o.
d the North in the matter of pretending
e to force the resignation of Stan
: ton and yet plotted with Chase tt
e force Stanton's reinstatement. Wilkes
o Booth was not in the Southern
Army but Lincoln had promised hin
'e that he would save the life OF Booth
/ friend. Lincoln deceived Booth ant
IL Booth killed him for his treachery
l. That is all the martyrdom in the Cast
a and completely blots out the barney o
e Mr.. Grady.
e Mr.. Grady dismisses Sherman's out
% RACES in Georgia with the fippant re
mark that ale was careless abou
a. fire." when Mr.. Grady knows tina
n Sherman, with deliberate malice, threy
bombs into the city of Atlanta amon
e the women and children while tn
e. Confederate soldiers were in line con
fronting him and waiting his attack
1t The record of Sherman's atrocitie
&c we're written in letters of fire in tn
ID homes OF Georgia and we leave to MI
III Grady the ungaateiully task Of eXcusin
e. the vandalism of the man who, let hir
lie be regarded as he may in the North
" stands to-day in the South upon the in
10 verified apex OF a proud peoples cor
Ct tempt
10 The picture OF the war-worn Cor
K federate Soldier returning to hi
a ruined home is touching in it vivi
ne truthfulness, but old soldiers will neve
ny with Mr.. Grady, thank God for tn
ay murder of their fathers and brothers
y even to please crowd Of Yankee en'
ne mics IN this good year of 1887. If sue
re be his conceptions wehope he ma
III never, claiming to represent Souther
sentiment, go North again,
"Where slaves converted by the sword
Their mean, apoState worship poured,
- And cursed the faith their sires adored."
:" Admiral Semmes, of the Alabam
~ was reader OF history, an accomplish
y ed scholar, and the best seaman TIL
~ ever trod the deck of vessel, and
- remarked when he heard OF the killir
~ of Lincoln: at is my duty as goo
Christian to pray for the repose of h
W soul but the Devil will surely take ca
-. of his memory"
The term "New South" is in itst
~ an insult. The Old South owes it pre-
ent condition to our own labor and
D. the God-glven blessings of its natl
- soil and sunshine No Van ice far